Comments on: When my newspaper is no longer my newspaper

By: pragmatic

pragmatic — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:53:12 +0000

Did any one read the editorial on Jaipur blasts? My god! N Ram blames it all on the ‘communalism’ practiced by the majority community.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/15/stories/2008051554761000.htm

By: shanoi

shanoi — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:38:23 +0000

ಹಿಂದು ಅದು ಹುಟ್ಟಿದಾಗಲಿಂದ ತಮಿಳು ಮಧ್ಯಮ ವರ್ಗದ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಅದು ಎಂದೂ ಜನಸಾಮಾನ್ಯರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯಾಗೆರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದು ಎಂದೂ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಪರ ಸಹಿಯಾದ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸುವ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ಮು ಮುದ್ರಿಸಿದ್ದು ನಾನು ನೋಡಿಲ್ಲ.
ಬಹಳ ಹಿಂದೆಯೇ ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ ಸರಕಾರ ಚಳುವಳಿ ನಟೆದಾಗಲೂ ಅದು ತಟಸ್ಥವಾಗಿಯೇ ಇತ್ತು. ಆಗ ಸರಕಾರ ಇಂಡಿಯನ್ ಎಕ್ಸಪ್ರೆಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಬಾನ್ ಮಾಡಿತ್ತು. ಆದರೆ ಆ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯ ಮಾಲೀಕರು ಅದನ್ನು ಗುಪ್ತರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳುಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು
ಹಿಂದು ಯಾವಾಗಲು ಇಂತಹ ವಿಷಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಂದೇಟಿನ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯೆ

By: Goldstar

Goldstar — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:02:13 +0000

Part II of The Hoot’s analysis of news coverage of Tibet:

http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=3077&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=19&valid=true

By: Hosa-Belaku

Hosa-Belaku — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:17:23 +0000

The Chinese Angle: I am not saying gift AP to China. I was also very angry when I heard what the Chinese minister said. I am well aware of the diplomatic tensions over this issue. HOWEVER, people I know who have visited the entire North East region (not as tourists, mind you) –people like you and me–have come back with this to say: “They are so different, they are certainly not like the rest of India, Indians. They are really so CUT-OFF.” All of them invariably ask visitors ‘Are you from India?”
The Hindu newspaper: Nice to know the staid old Hindu is capable of creating controversies through COVERAGE of all things. I have not read the paper for long.
Editors ruining papers: With such a glut in media offerings, with the entire industry in a turmoil, everyone knows a newspaper (any) is no newspaper anymore. When everyone is running riot, the editor who is in the lead (or who has been relegated to marketing, administration, politicking–you name it) will no doubt be wilder than the rest.
State of journalism: The way things are going, it is/will soon be “each to his own dose of half-truths, untruths, white lies, coloured facts, armchair analyses and so on and so forth.”
Advice for hurt and angry citizens: Some new tabloids seem to be somewhat respectable.

By: Thejas

Thejas — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:25:08 +0000

It’s not just my opinion that The Hindu is indeed a communist, Chinese mouthpiece. People across the media feel that. So much so, even the Reader’s editor does!
This is an analysis of how top 4 English dailies of India behaved during the Tibet episode. Do read.

http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=3070&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=19&valid=true

By: pragmatic

pragmatic — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:19:56 +0000

this Ram will not learn. See how he is preaching on Tibet!

http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/23/stories/2008042359671200.htm

This is also being taken from Xinhua news agency. thu!

By: Sameer

Sameer — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:08:21 +0000

We switched to the Hindu recently - having tired of the TOI and its fluffy supplements. We had heard a lot of positives about the Hindu from f&f and hadnt quite liked the DH or Express when we’d tried a change in the past.

Within a couple of weeks I felt I was reading a different and doctored view of the world, at odds to what I came across elsewhere. Its alright to have a differing, strong voice (I grew up with C.R.Irani’s Statesman) but this felt wrong.

I’m afraid I do perceive the Hindu as too left wing, not merely idelogically which would be ok, but so much so that there’s little objectivity and even a fair bit of distortion of truth and facts.

Considering switching back to “good” old tea-oh-i.

By: Goldstar

Goldstar — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:25:09 +0000

The Reader’s Editor of The Chindu writes about his observation of “the bias” in reporting of the Tibet Issue today:

http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/14/stories/2008041454931100.htm

QUOTE
I compared the reporting of the events in other Indian newspapers (English) and also The Guardian and the New York Times with that in The Hindu from March 15 to 19 and could not but note the wide gap which led to the readers’ protests. (The angles given to the stories and their display are not to be questioned; that is editorial privilege). Overall, these points struck me as noteworthy:

1. Reliance on Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. Its reports should have been balanced by inputs from other news agencies, but their use was scanty and selective. No doubt they too would have had their angles and biases but that would have been another side of the picture. Why was The Guardian, otherwise used extensively, ignored (except for an eyewitness account which was not very informative)?

2. The Hindu’s perceptive correspondent in Beijing, Pallavi Aiyar, made no contribution, except to report Prime Minister Wen’s press conference.

3. The statements of the Chinese Prime Minister and the Chinese envoy in Delhi were fully reported. The Dalai Lama’s were truncated versions. Many readers noted that his remark on “cultural genocide” was edited out.

4. The most surprising feature was the total absence of Tibet in the “Letters to the Editor column” — in which otherwise comments appear even as events are unfolding and continue for days. A few letters appeared after an article and an editorial were published and ceased abruptly.
UNQUOTE

@Vinutha, where are you??

By: pragmatic

pragmatic — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:25:53 +0000

well, The Hindu has published a letter from a group of ‘intellectuals’ like Ramachandra Guha and Shahi Tharoor on Tibet issue

http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/10/stories/2008041055671003.htm

By: KL

KL — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:42:23 +0000

The mutharayar were the descendants of hoysalas ,i was told by a dravidian ideologue in tiruchi,and they were discriminated because they used to be haughty.It was a personal anecdote sort of story.

They are the most backward ,is beyond doubt.But the wikepedia article claims they are the descendants of kalabhras from karnataka in the 4th century AD,who were anti tamil.In which case it is incredible that it is still held against them,when they are the single largest community in the tiruchi region.

By: ravaNa

ravaNa — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:55:40 +0000

It is so shameful that the Indian Government and the Vice President of India are acting according to China’s wishes.

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/288039.html

By: ravaNa

ravaNa — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:47:02 +0000

N Ram is a dEsha drOhi and so are his supporters.

By: tarlesubba

tarlesubba — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:51:05 +0000

blunt and cruel is ok but what to do with the blind?

just to support his position, what all bogies he has raised. western conspiracy, kashmir. that is worst of all, just protect his theory his slinging mud at india.

it is critical to frame this quote and preserve it, it has deep import:

“New Delhi has allowed too much latitude to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan discontents for their political activities on Indian soil, which go against the stand that they are not allowed “to engage in anti-China political activities in India,” a principle reaffirmed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Washington on March 24.”

By: Thejas

Thejas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:10:00 +0000

Today’s editorial on the Tibet issue has properly exposed The Hindu, yet again. How can a journalist of such ’stature’ be so blunt and cruel!

Mallya, its high time you rethink on your opinion on The Hindu.

By: pragmatic

pragmatic — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:07:44 +0000

Heard this one on some other blog:

“The Hindu is synonymous with CPIM. Chinese Paper In Madras.”